135342 - Mac OS X Help window's collapse toolbar widget doesn't work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 278517

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

Mac OS X "Collapse Toolbar" button doesn't work in Mozilla Help.  It doesn't
appear to have any code behind it.

2002040313

Comment 1

[Bruce Davidson]

Confirming on build ID 2002040208.

Comment 2

[Terri Preston]

Would be nice for Buffy

Comment 3

[Will Budreau]

Menus are not changed to context of Mozilla Help in the front, and none of them
do anything although they are selectable and flash the menu when the item or key
equivalent is chosen.

Help window modally blocks all Mozilla-specific commands and menus without any
evidence this is the case.

The only commands that do work are those in the OS X Mozilla menu, and the basic
windowing icons.

Comment 4

[Samir Gehani]

adt: nsbeta1-

Comment 5

[Frankie]

Moz 1.4 final, OS X 10.2.6

The Help window is really deeply screwy. It forces itself to be the topmost
Mozilla window and refuses to be unfocused. Minimize only works for a second,
then Help pops back up.

Browser windows and menu items are unusable.

Comment 6

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

moving stuff over to an outside-the-firewall email for the time being, looking
for people to pick these Help and doc bugs up for me.

Comment 7

[R.J. Keller]

mass reassign of all of Ian Oeschger's bugs to me (R.J. Keller).

Comment 8

[R.J. Keller]

alwaysRaised is planning on being removed from help.

Moving to 1.6 alpha.

Comment 9

[R.J. Keller]

Anyone got any leads on fixing this? Could this be caused by alwaysRaised
somehow becoming modal on MacOS? danm, do you know if this kind of issue is
already reported?

I don't have access to a mac, so I couldn't help in finding any leads.

Comment 10

[Dan M]

Also Macless am I. However, the reporter is no doubt mistaken about the cause of
this bug. Modal windows on the Mac platform show up as sheets, and all of the
comments in this bug make it sound as if the Help window is a full-blown,
top-level window (sheet help would be pretty awful, eh?) This bug has nothing to
do with modality or alwaysRaised.

The Help window has no menubar. This is a variant of, and has the same cause as,
bug 21296; a basic architectural gaff that we've had no response to for four years.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21296 ***

Comment 11

[Dan M]

Hmm. "gaff, e-less: a spear or spearhead for taking fish or turtles." You know
what I mean.

Comment 12

[Frankie]

Not a dupe of bug 21296. Beyond the usual menu bar problem, the Help window's
collapse and minimize widgets don't work. Also, it refuses to stay beneath other
windows. The rest of Mozilla unusable until you close Help.

Comment 13

[Frankie]

Attachment: You can minimize or background other menuless windows

Unlike the other menuless windows in bug 21296, Help refuses to get out of the
way.

Comment 14

[Dan M]

"refuses to stay beneath other windows" is as-designed, and that *is* the fault
of alwaysRaised. It's the menubar problem, bug 21296, that makes this an issue.
Unless you just don't like alwaysRaised windows but despite comment 9 I think
we're not going to lose that. See bug 219865 and especially bug 219865 comment 7.

However, "window's collapse and minimize widgets don't work," you got me there.
Sorry. Missed that when I closed the bug.

On the first issue, it think it would be relatively easy to hack it so that
windows without menubars on the Mac won't be alwaysRaised, pending a fix for bug
21296, which ain't forthcoming. On the second issue, that'll need help from
someone with a Mac.

Comment 15

[R.J. Keller]

This needs to be reassigned. Obviously a problem in XP Apps (not sure where in
XP Apps it should go).

Daniel: Can you reassign this to the appropriate component?

Comment 16

[Dan M]

Alright. Simon is the only Mac developer active outside the Camino arena that I
know of. Simon, feel free of course to keep the hot potato bouncing.

I've split this bug's two complaints into two bugs. See bug 221813 for the other
half. This bug is now "Mac Help window's collapse and minimize widgets don't
work," as described in the original comment.

Comment 17

[Frankie]

DanM, thanks for sorting this out. The minimize failure is a side effect of bug
221813. Technically it does minimize for a few milliseconds, then alwaysRaised
makes it jump back up.

Collapse Toolbar, as the submitter stated, is completely inactive.

Comment 18

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

fixed by the patch on the "dupe"

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 278517 ***

Comment 19

[Frankie]

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